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Professor Deborah Ashby

Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials
School of Public Health

VC10
Norfolk Place
St Mary's Campus

Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 8704
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Professor Deborah Ashby

Professor Deborah Ashby holds the Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at Imperial College. This is a joint appointment between the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, in the Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, and the Department of Experimental Medicine and Toxicology, in the Division of Investigative Science. Prior to her appointment in 2008, she held the Chair in Medical Statistics at Barts and the London, Queen Mary, University of London. She held academic appointments in Medical Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Public Health at the University of Liverpool from 1987-1997 and has an extensive teaching and statistical consultancy career. Her research interests are in clinical trials, systematic reviews, safety of medicines, and the utility of Bayesian statistical approaches in these areas. Her current studies include research into gene therapy and other therapies for cystic fibrosis, management of pain, and prevention of diabetes.
She holds a 20% secondment as Director NIHR Capacity Building for Statistics, Clinical Trials and Economics and is on the Commission on Human Medicines. She is a European expert for the European Medicines Evaluation Agency and a member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Commissioning Board. She has numerous publications in clinical trials, systematic reviews and observational studies on the efficacy and safety of therapies including substantive applications in a variety of clinical areas including cancer, cystic fibrosis, pain management and the safety of SSRI anti-depressants. She has also served on the editorial boards of several journals and the BMJ (British Medical Journal) Manuscript Meeting, and is statistical editor for the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetics Disorders Group.